Hal Stein

I love Spotify, but just cancelled my subscription because they are running ICE recruitment ads on the free version. Please consider doing so as well.

“Know where you stand and stand there.”
—Daniel Berrigan

This authoritarian regime is determined to change us as people, and render us fearful, weak, callous, despairing and cruel. We must resist these efforts, and remain fearless, strong, empathetic, joyful and kind.

Absolutely and completely agree.

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: · John Lewis Actions Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...

I'm attending John Lewis Actions's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON:” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

Happy Fourth of July to all.

Opinion | ‘I Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’

We are reigniting vaccine-preventable diseases in our nation’s children while simultaneously decimating their access to healthcare.

‘I Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

Beware this government-sanctioned disinformation that is in our inboxes today.

As a Jew, I have a collective intergeneration understanding of the consequences of decent people looking away as the humanity of others were destroyed in Nazi Germany. With America on the cusp of a police state, we must actively choose to not repeat that same mistake now.

129K views · 2.5K reactions | Tori Tracy on Reels

There will be a reckoning. It will be up to We The People to fight this evil, and we will do it. www.facebook.com/reel/6458115...

I hope this is the face she makes every time she looks in the mirror and thinks about what she did.

As the attack from within on Americans continues, now legislatively, we must not despair. We take a deep breath, give ourselves time to regroup and recharge, and return to the fight.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Passes Trump’s Big Policy Bill

Thanks to Lisa Murkowski’s cowardice, the MAGA Murder Bill is on its way to killing our fellow Americans.
Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Passes Trump’s Big Policy Bill www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

YouTube video by ABC7 U.S. citizen arrested by federal agents says he heard them bragging about arrests

Another U.S. citizen was arrested and detained by ICE agents in Hollywood on Thursday. We must stand up, speak out and fight back.
youtu.be/hmdEI0mtHfw?...

If there is a ceasefire between Iran and Israel after Iran’s largely symbolic bombing of a U.S. base in Qatar today, that is good for so many reasons. Besides the obvious global benefits of de-escalation, it also makes it harder for Trump to justify extreme actions domestically against us all here.

BREAKING: Trump Gestapo Arrests NYC Comptroller Trump is Schrödinger's Fist, both tightening his grip and falling apart at the same time.

This just happened. ICE arrested a U.S. citizen. We must rise up and fight back, again and again.

www.mind-war.com/p/breaking-t...

#nokings. I’m on the call

My wife Joan and I are ready to stand up and speak out against the madness.

Sen. Padilla Shoots Back at Critics, Calls on Dems to Fight. Yesterday was, by his own admission, a shocking day for Senator Alex Padilla.

This is an extended interview with Sen. Alex Padilla in the wake of his abusive mishandling yesterday at the hands of the DHS in L.A.
Sen. Padilla Shoots Back at Critics, Calls on Dems to Fight. www.thebulwark.com/p/sen-padill...

YouTube video by Austin American-Statesman US Marines detain civilian at LA anti-ICE protests for first known time after Trump deploys military

This is a deadly serious line Trump has crossed.
youtu.be/cW5oRFbHbuQ

If You Think We Can’t Beat Trump, Remember The 3.5% Rule History shows autocrats are vulnerable to massive nonviolent resistance

We can do it.

If You Think We Can’t Beat Trump, Remember The 3.5% Rule open.substack.com/pub/thinkbig...

Not surprisingly, the silence from the entire Republican Party is deafening in the wake of this continued assault on our nation. The world is watching. History will honor those who spoke out and stood up, and will vilify those who stayed silent and were complicit.

YouTube video by ABC7 CA Sen. Alex Padilla forcibly removed from DHS press conference

This is U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and detained by law enforcement during Kristi Noem’s DHS press conference in L.A. today.
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Opinion | This Is What Autocracy Looks Like

“If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived. The question, now, is whether Americans who hate tyranny can be roused to respond.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

Has anybody else noticed that no one is talking right now about the Trump-Musk feud, the tariffs, the attacks on the judiciary, media, and universities, the decimation of science and research, the destruction of our international alliances, the continued DOGE fiasco or the MAGA Murder Budget?

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid

We must rise as a people against these atrocities. Every time, without exception, we must resist these attempts to frighten us into submission.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Elon Musk and Donald Trump Are Splitsville, Until They Aren’t

This could all be political theater, in a mutually beneficial effort to distract us all once again. If you’re waiting for an irreconcilable breakup, don’t hold your breath.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

Live Updates: Trump Threatens to Cut Musk’s Government Contracts as Online Feud Escalates

Alien vs. Predator. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

I'll be at the Fort Collins event! You go, girl!! <3 <3